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APPOINTMENT OF AUDFTING COMMITTEF 



Xext ill order of business was tlie appointment of a committee to audit 

 the Treasurer's accounts. W. H. Twenhofel and M. W. Twitchell ^\ere 

 appointed after a motion to this effect had been voted on bv the members. 



ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS 



The next matter of business was the announcement of the election of 

 officers for 1917 and of new members. The results of the ballots were 

 as follows : 



OFFICERS FOR 1917 



President: 



J. C. Merriam, Berkeley, Cal. 



First Vice-President : 



W. D, Matthew, New York City 



Second Vice-President: 



E. W. Berry, Baltimore, Md. 



Third Vice-President : 



A. W. Grabau, New York City 



Secretary: 



E. S. Bassler, Washington, D. C. 



Treasurer : 



E. S. Lull, New Haven, Conn. 



Editor: 



C. E. Eastman, New York City 



NEW MEMBERS 



Joseph A. Cushman, Sharon, Mass. 



Carl O. Dunbar, Peabody Museum, New Haven, Conn. 



Richard M. Field, Jamaica Plains, Mass. 



Wilder I. Robinson, Vassar College, Pouglikeepsie, N. Y. 



Kdward J. Whittaker, Geological Survey, Ottawa. Canada. 



The President then called the attention of the Society to three nomi- 

 nations for membership which had been received too late for the printed 

 ballot and which had been acted on favorably by the Council. Following 

 a motion by Dr. John M. Clarke and the unanimous vote by the members, 



